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How Public Lab is Funded

The funders listed below support the Public Lab nonprofit organization. Other Public Lab community members and project partners have received funding from different organizations which are not listed below. Public Lab also creates earned revenue through sales of open hardware kits.

Current Support

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation$1,575,000 Support for community science capacity building

National Academies' Gulf Research Program$294,912 Youth-led community science projects in the Gulf region

11th Hour Project$160,000 General operating support

Wayne Resa subgrant$118,000 AEROKATS and ROVER Education Network

Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program$30,203 General operating support

United Nations Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)In-kind support for Public Lab Google Summer of Code students

The 11th Hour Project, a program of the Schmidt Family Foundation
* $350,000 Support for development of the Oil and Gas Accountability Toolkit
* $350,000 Community Networks for Oil and Gas Accountability
* $230,000 Support for community development of low cost tool for monitoring sand frac operations and pilot testing of tool
* $50,000 Support of DIY water turbidity monitoring in communities affected by frac sand mining
* $26,000 Archiving and updating the bucket monitoring tool and method

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
* $374,745 Support for research on the capacity of Public Lab’s model of community science to both build confidence in scientific concepts and increase civic engagement, to be completed in partnership with the University of California, Davis
* $5,000 Support for partnership building with AGU’s Thriving Earth Exchange

Rita Allen Foundation
* $50,000 General support
* $150,000 Support for a snapshot evaluation of Public Lab and development of an evaluation framework for co-created citizen science projects in partnership with UC-Davis

National Academies' Gulf Research Program
* $158,000 Support for building scientific literacy and resilience through community science in the Gulf of Mexico

Foundation to Promote Open Society, a part of the Open Society Foundations
* $150,000 Support for launching the Public Lab data advocacy initiative

Google
* $15,000 Support for development of Infragram
* $85,800 Support for MapKnitter v2

Fund for Shared Insight, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc., with support from Rita Allen Foundation
* $60,000 Support under the Listen for Good to develop a robust systems for collecting and using feedback from stakeholders

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
* $52,185 To train community members and wetland restoration advocates to monitor and track progress at eight ongoing urban wetland restoration projects near Lake Pontchartrain.
* $10,000 Air Quality Monitoring program for Cypress Hills school in Brooklyn, NY

Environmental Leadership Program (through the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation)
* $10,000 Support for joint proposal to develop a community urban garden management toolkit with Ironbound Community Corporation in New Jersey

Points of Light Civic Accelerator
* $10,000 Investment in development of Civic Information Starter Kit program

Shpilman Institute for Photography
* $10,000 Evaluation of work at Gulf Coast, New York and Montana sites

New Knowledge Foundation Ltd.
* $3,000 Partnership support on behalf of their EECapacity Project, an effort funded by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency through a cooperative agreement with Cornell University, in collaboration with the North American Association for Environmental Education under Assistant Agreement No. NT-83497401-0

Environmental Defense Fund
* $2,500 Development of near-infrared imaging for agricultural use